Mobile phone store tips

BigBadMick

Read this spec-chums:

http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/verizon/8-confessions-of-a-former-verizon-sales-rep-241665.php

It's amazing what they don't tell you in the mobile phone shop.

dekh

Another tip: You get better deals by switching networks than anything retentions will give you on your current network.

Carphone warehouse will give away Vizorblades (BT car kit without paying ?150 for an installation just clip it to the sun visor - magnificent) and other BT accessories if you get your contract through them.


BTW has anyone in the last 10 years, when phoning orange, never got the "unexpectedly high call volumes" (or whatever the wording is) message?

robert@fm

I've often had unexpectedly high call costs. :(

I remember that One2One's "Pay-As-You-Go Standard" tariff wasn't too bad -- OK, 30p/minute for the first 2 minutes/day, but only 5p/minute thereafter; so for calls totalling 5 minutes or more in a day, it cost the same as Virgin; Virgin was only cheaper for less than 5 minutes (it was, and still is, 15p/minute for the first 5 minutes/day).

But then One2One decided to switch its branding to that of its parent company, T-Mobile -- and in the process changed its PAYG tariff to "Pay-As-You-Go Everyone" (or "Pay-Through-The-Nose Everytime" as I sarcastically called it); 30p/minute for the first 33.333(etc.) minutes per month, only dropping to 20p/minute for anyone stupid/desperate enough to rack up ?10 of calls in one month at that extortionate rate.  (It dropped to 10p/minute for any rich idiot really dumb enough to rack up another ?10; I wonder if anyone ever did.)  Thus, when my phone service died (I kept getting told that the remaining ?1.61 was "not enough credit" to send a simple text message -- another steep increase, the were originally 10p each -- and someone set a password on my account, so I couldn't sort out the problems with it as T-Mobile don't have password recovery) I switched to Virgin -- stuff T-Mobile. :(

chop983

My advice, use's the same pub all the time,
that way your either at home, at work or down the local that way you don't need a phone as your not difficult to track down.